I have been attempting to review how successful I have been at implementing the Learning Scientists Six Strategies for Effective Learning in my lessons. The strategies provide a sound evidence-based structure for …

I think I might be a little late to this party but I want to reflect on my thinking about growth mindset and resilience. Views about the usefulness of growth mindset seem to be polarised as it is seen as either a magic wand or a passing fad. It is probably neither and it’s usefulness may be weakened by an inconclusive evidence base.

Our final class is done and the ink is dry on your exam papers. It will be strange to think that we will not be part of each others lives anymore, I will never mark another one of your essays nor will you have to put up with my appalling jokes and long-winded stories.

It is predicted grades time and I am agonising more than ever. It has always been a task that has filled me with dread but this year it is at best overwhelming. My anxiety about the new specifications and the unknowns about grade boundaries has sent me into a spin.

Beginnings and endings punctuate life in a school, not only the big beginnings and endings in September and June; they also remain a focus of each term, topic and assessment. I have always felt a mixture of both excitement and terror at all of these junctions.